Jan: 4507 books
Torchon Lacemaking
A step-by-step guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Torchon lacemaking is a textile art steeped in tradition and the skills required are often perceived to be beyond the reach of ordinary mortals. In this practical book, Jan Tregidgo describes those skills through a step-by-step guide and makes them accessible to all. She explains traditional techniques...
by Jan Jewett, Connie Furr Soloman
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Liberace Extravaganza! by award-winning costume designers Connie Furr Soloman and Jan Jewett is an opulent display of the renowned entertainer’s dazzling and over-the-top costumes.
No one would ever accuse Wladzlu Valentino Liberace of being demure. The internationally celebrated star is...
Heaven is a Garden
Designing Serene Spaces for Inspiration and Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Heaven Is a Garden is about creating havens for the senses. Drawing on ancient traditions of “sacred space,” Jan Johnsen identifies the key natural elements of a garden that can give us feelings of renewal and inspiration. She shows us how we can introduce these calming, inspiring elements into our...
Premiere Pro CC
Visual QuickStart Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In this clear and straightforward guide, digital video veteran Jan Ozer gives beginning and intermediate video editors just what they need to know on Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Tasked-based, step-by-step instructions and loads of visuals and time-saving tips help professionals and newcomers alike quickly...
The Venetian Empire
A Sea Voyage
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 1990
For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean – an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'.
Jan Morris...
Who Votes Now?
Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
Who Votes Now? compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections since 1972 and examines how electoral reforms and the choices offered by candidates influence voter turnout. Drawing on a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's...
California on the Breadlines
Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression’s most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private—they both divorced spouses to be together—collaborative, and richly productive....
Focus on Travel Photography
Focus on the Fundamentals (Focus On Series)
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Author Haje Jan Kamps knows that you are travelling for two good reasons: to experience great things, and to get great photos of your travels. He also understands very well how people's eyes tend to glaze over when phrases like "Circles of Confusion" or the "Inverse Square Law"...
by Carolyn Humphries & Jan Orchard
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Microwave Cooking Times is the book that will rescue everyone who fears cooking anything more ambitious than frozen peas in the microwave. All it takes to make the most of one of the greatest assets in the kitchen is a little know-how. Carolyn Humphries and Jan Orchard leave no questions unanswered....
by Brian Loesgen, Charles Young, Jan Eliasen
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed is the 100% new, 100% practical developer’s guide to Microsoft’s most powerful version of BizTalk Server. Written by an expert team of Microsoft insiders and BizTalk MVPs, it reflects unsurpassed experience with all phases of BizTalk enterprise solutions...
by Jan Roberson, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Have you experienced the success that you expected at work? Do you know when to write your message and when to say it in person? You need understand the how’s, when’s and when-not-to’s of communicating in the workplace, especially as it applies to e-mails. Through real life stories, learn what...
Inter/vention
Free Play in the Age of Electracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
A proposal that electracy—the special skills needed to navigate and understand our digital world—can be developed through play.
In today's complex digital world, we must understand new media expressions and digital experiences not simply as more technologically advanced forms of “writing”...
The Day Kasparov Quit
and other chess interviews
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
What goes on in some of the sharpest minds on earth? Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam has collected a new series of intimate portraits of the top grandmasters of chess, winning the confidence of Garry Kasparov, Miguel Najdorf, Vishy Anand, Judit Polgar, David Bronstein, Hikaru Nakamura and many others. Anyone...
Finding Bobby Fischer
Chess Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
‘Bobby Fischer gets up, tall, overweight, and slightly clumsy. He tries to fulfil the duties of the host and shakes hands, but his nervously darting eyes betray his unease with the situation. This is not a man accustomed to receiving visitors.’ Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam’s gripping encounter with the...